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Wizards of the Coast announced the Tomb of Annihilation, the next huge adventure for D&D players. Then they had the Stream of Annihilation showing off all sorts of content creators doing Twitch streams highlighting that upcoming release. As everyone knows all good things come in threes, and so prepare for…

11 different live play D&D podcasts have teamed up with Wizards of the Coast to bring you a week of special content all related to the Tomb of Annihilation release. Starting on September 18th with two episodes every day all week you can hear some of the best D&D podcasts creating awesome shows to celebrate the adventures we will have in Chult. These episodes will be featured on Wizard’s own Dungeon Delve podcast feed, along with bonus content and exciting crossovers!

Dungeon Drunks is proud and honored to be one of those podcasts!

If you are already a fan and subscriber to our podcast you’ll get our special Podcasts of Annihilation episode like normal from the Dungeon Drunks feed! But we highly recommend checking out the other podcasts participating in this event, as they are filled with wonderful, talented, creative, hysterical D&D fans who are just like us; in love with D&D and making awesome entertainment for you to enjoy. Plus you should absolutely subscribe to the Dungeon Delve feed so you can hear all of the special games. Some Dungeon Drunks players will be showing up on other podcasts, and our DM is doing something special with all the other DMs that you won’t want to miss!

My favorite part of any convention, but RTX in specific, is my friends. The ones I only see once or twice a year. The new ones I make over the course of a few days. The amazing people I get to hang out with all day every day for a few days.

I'm trying to be better about taking pictures. Finding the right balance between enjoying the moment and documenting it for later. One of the ways I've tried to do that is be much better about taking pictures with people. Hugs and selfies.

The most recent episode of Dungeon Drunks had me drinking a mixer that included Hydra Hooch, a moonshine suffused with ghost peppers to make it THE HOTTEST THING ON THE PLANET.

This lethal but delicious concoction, as well as the amazing label, was crafted by @Ethan & @BunnyMonster who had been brewing this delight for months before RTX. We'd talked a bit about it ahead of time, brainstorming the snake oil that Waylon would be selling and what he would call it. It was such a wonderful gift I actually wrote it into the game I ran at RTX!

If you were at that game, or heard it on the podcast, you know that might have been a mistake. :D

There was plenty that could come home with me, but as nice as the bottle was I didn't want to risk glass in my checked bag. Fortunately @GoobertheGr8 helped fixed that problem!

That is a gorgeous flask made for me (and others for my wonderful players) which was not only a lovely gift but PERFECT to put the Hydra Hooch in to save for the trip!

So now I have a D&D flask filled with D&D drink that will kill me in medium quantities. I asked on Twitter for suggestions for what to mix this with and my Dad actually suggested pomegranate juice which ended up being DELICIOUS! I called it Dragon's Blood and that's what I drank last week.

This next episode I'll probably go with what Beka recommended which was chocolate liqueur, but I will still have PLENTY after that. Any other suggestions?

I love Luke McKay for a large variety of reasons. One of those many reasons is that he is a wonderful partner for Dungeons & Dragons. He is a fun person to play with, a great DM, an awesome host of games, and will produce amazing art in the middle of games on the fly.

When I moved out to Seattle and rekindled my love of D&D, one of my first chances to DM was at Luke's birthday party in 2011. He wanted to do a huge D&D party, so I brought the 4th Edition Red Box and we spent all day running through the adventure in that Starter Set. It was Luke's first time playing D&D, it was one of my first experiences running a game, and it was a load of fun!

Look at me doing Dungeons & Dragons & Drunks even way back then!

For many years, while Luke still lived in Canada, as my home game ran through all kinds of adventures Luke would join us when he could. Sometimes just a game or two, hanging out drawing stuff while we played. Sometimes he would run an NPC. On rare occasions he would come down for chunks of time and be able to play in a whole campaign. In early 2014 we created a bunch of high level characters and ran through the 4th edition version of Tomb of Horrors, which I've been thinking about recently with the new Tomb of Annihilation coming out soon.

Luke played a Warforged Tank named Pulse.

Pulse had one job, and he did that job super well. Luke would run him in front of all the enemies and make them all come to him and fight him. He was an old school tank; super hard to hit, had tons of health, and prevented anyone from running away from him. Pulse was amazing, keeping deadly enemies away from squishier targets like my Hengeyokai Ranger.

Karian was super fun to play, because as a Hengeyokai he could turn into a dog. No other animals, and not a wolf, but very specifically a DOG. So I played him like a mutt with the personality of a golden retriever. Happy, loyal, maybe a little dumb, and ADORABLE.

Not only was Luke great fun to play with, but after every game I'd look over at his sketchbook and he'd have some amazing bit of art. He managed to roll play, participate in combat, AND draw all at the same time!

We survived the Tomb of Horrors, and many other adventures. Luke has now run a few games, and continued to draw amazing characters. He's my go to person when I need to talk through ideas and issues I'm having when I'm creating D&D adventures, and always has insightful comments and ideas.

Right now as I type this he's hard core printing books to bring to sell at RTX in a few days. But even while he's doing that he's helping me finalize the D&D&D panel, and talking about drawing something special for the game. Make sure to stop by his booth at RTX, say hi, and ask him about his latest D&D character. Maybe he'll show you his sketches.

Between my lack of gigs or job, and the ramp up to RTX and D&D stuff, I am somehow managing to feel crazy busy, poor, panicked, and really excited all at the same time.

- We are ONE WEEK AWAY from the Sidequest Charity Gala at RTX, where Dungeons & Dragons & Drunks will be auctioning off an excellent D&D themed prize pack. When you buy your Sidequest tickets don't forget to use the code SQENABLERS to get 20% off the ticket price!

- We are ONE WEEK AND A DAY away from the D&D&D live panel at RTX! Friday July 7th from 4-6pm Central in the Hilton Governor's Ballroom! Come see us play D&D live for your entertainment, give away TONS of prizes, raise money for charity, and just have a fantastic time! I know there is a lot of other amazing events and panels at the same time, but we're proud to be a community run community driven event filled with community members! Please come support us?

You usually hear about visual artists opening up commissions, but sometimes you can commission a musician as well! Most of what I'm contracted to play are larger events, like orchestra gigs. Every so often I'm hired to record things, like music for popular web series or solo parts for a new concerto. I've had to get a bit creative to be able to offer something anyone might want and could easily afford. But the summer is a dead time for gigs, and I am poor. So I've taken an idea that I've used to make presents for friends and family and opened it up to everyone!

Custom Musical Cryptograms!

Would you like to have an original musical composition based on your name or a phrase performed by a professional classical oboist? I can turn any text into custom music, play and record it on oboe or English horn, and send you a high quality mp3 or wav that you can enjoy. Use it as a unique ringtone, theme music for your YouTube channel, or a special gift for the person who has everything!

My current rate is $10 for around 10 seconds of music, with discounts for multiple orders. You can choose a high quality mp3 or wave file, and if you want I'll even send you a scan of the sheet music I created so you can see the actual notes! I'm even running an RTX special...order before the end of June and I guarantee your order within 24 hours of receiving payment!

You can PM me here, or send me an email at INFO AT OBOECRAZY DOT COM to get more information and get yourself something unique!

In 2013 I had an idea: I wanted to play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with my friends at RTX. In those days the convention was still light on evening activities besides pub crawls. This was a chance to hang out, play a fun one shot, be entertainment for those that just wanted to watch, and share a hobby that had become a big part of my life with some of my favorite people. When enough people showed interest in the evening we put together a little prize package for the Sidequest charity auction to sweeten the deal...the winner of the auction would come "be the bad guy" and help me in the final boss fight. So one night a couple dozen of us took over an upstairs corner of the Radisson hotel and over the next few hours played a hysterical game of D&D! People arrived to watch for a while, bringing us food and drinks, and our charity winner rolled a Natural 20 on his very first ever d20 roll! It was casual and fun, and we all agreed we should do it again next year!

In 2014 with a bit more planning and interest we reserved a back room at Fado, a fantastic Irish pub nearby. A slightly larger audience enjoyed a comfortable space and good food while I lead our party on an RvB themed adventure that to this day has one of the best surprise endings I never would have predicted. We managed to record it on video for fun, the charity winners got outstanding prizes and had a blast, and this D&D at RTX thing was cemented as a yearly event.

In 2015 we were accepted as an official panel at the convention! This meant a dedicated space with audio and video, and a comfortable place for the audience to watch. It was a small room with only an hour of time, but the RT fans packed the room to overflowing with an amazing audience who filled that small space with so much love and enthusiasm that it was hard to do anything but grin from ear to ear the whole game! As an official panel we received a lot more attention so our Sidequest Charity auction raised a LOT more money then ever before. It was a great success! Once the game was over everyone who'd participated were constantly approached the rest of the con asking if we were going to continue playing D&D and put it out for people to watch.

Last year, 2016, D&D&D opened in a bigger room, with a huge wonderful passionate audience, a full 2 hours to play, and managed to record the audio to release on the podcast. We raised more money then ever for charity, gave away tons of free swag, played an amazing game, and had a fantastic time! Once again RT fans proved to be the best audience, laughing and cheering and shouting out jokes and filled with quiet tension when dice were rolled...I could not have been more blessed, or proud, or grateful, at how much joy that game brought everyone. Not only does that event remain one of my favorite D&D moments, and one of my favorite RTX moments, it is still one of my favorite memories ever. Of all time.

So here we are, 2017 RTX is weeks away, and we're back with another live D&D game for charity! Our panel is official (Friday July 7th from 4-6pm in the Hilton Governor's Ballroom), the prize pack for the Sidequest Charity Auction is ready to go, and the game is a few tweeks away from being ready. Everyone who has participated in our games the last few years is in some way responsible for it's continued success...all of our players, the amazing audience who cheered us on, Sidequest and the winners of the charity drives, the Guardians who dealt with our strange "panel"...

...and yet I can't help but be more nervous about this game then any of the others. A big reason is that we'll be down one player; the wonderful Jack "Jengaship" "Travancore" cannot come to RTX this year for very wonderful happy reasons. And there is the pressure to make this all work, to create something entertaining, something bigger and better then the last year, something that everyone can walk away from with a smile and say that they had a fantastic time!

Who knows exactly know what will happen? D&D is improv collaborative storytelling. I will come with a one shot adventure that I hope my players will enjoy playing, that I hope the audience will find entertaining, and when my players and the audience change the story in weird and wonderful ways I can only hope I can keep up and keep it fun and funny.

We've all done this before, I know the players are hysterically funny and quick on their feet, and our audience is brilliant and passionate and knows how to have fun. I just need to get you all in the same room, and joy will happen.

Wait, fun is not a strong enough word. Amazing. Incredible. Insanely outstanding. Awesome, in the truest sense of the word.

Getting a chance to just hang out all day with other DMs who do games that get posted on the internet, to chat about our triumphs and struggles, to just be huge geeks about this passion we love, and to always have someone from Wizards of the Coast just hanging out with us was joyful. Like the best convention, except all the panels are D&D. I got to tell TONS of people all about running live games for charity at RTX, and the community here, and the podcast, and hear about their own games and charity and community. Many of these people and groups I was very familiar with, some I was not, all of them were fantastic people who were just a pleasure to hang out with!

Thank you to everyone who came out live to watch, and especially those who shouted about me in the chat! Dungeons & Dragons & Drunks has a smaller following then a lot of the big names on that stage, and getting some love made me super happy. And if you are NOT familiar with D&D&D our latest podcast just went up today....Episode 72: Math And Miles! Give it a download on your preferred podcast device!

But back to the SoA. Not only did I get to have a blast, but I nabbed a TON of swag that the D&D&D crew will be giving away on our podcast as well as at RTX as part of the Charity Auction. And I got to play in two fantastic games! If you go to the D&D Twitch stream not only can you watch both days in total, but you can see all the individual segments. The two games I was lucky enough to participate in are:

SoA One Grung Above: Chris Lindsay, D&D Product Manager, Adventurers League Guru and architect of the Dungeon Masters Guild, runs an adventure for group of other Dungeon Masters! Playing with nothing but other long time DMs is a unique experience....also crazy fun! Add to that the fact that all the characters are Grung (frog people) and it's probably one of my favorite D&D experiences EVER.

SoA Maze Arcana w/ Special Guests: Maze Arcana is an established D&D streaming team who put on two games over the weekend, and I was one of the guests invited to play in the Saturday game! Two words: zombie T-Rex.

Those are my two games, but honestly ANY of the content from that weekend is excellent. It's hours of D&D games, some of them the first part of a multi-part series that will continue on the Wizard D&D twitch stream! So go enjoy, let me know what you think and if you enjoyed it, and if you're at RTX come say hi. Maybe I'll have some D&D swag to give away.

Tomorrow, the Stream of Annihilation begins! Two days of Wizards of the Coast livestreaming D&D games, talking about new storylines and products, and generally having a ton of fun. As I've mentioned I'm fortunate enough to have been invited to join, thanks in no small measure to the community here supporting my DMing on Dungeons & Dragons & Drunks!

Wizards just posted the schedule, and I highly encourage everyone to watch as much as possible! It's 10am-10pm Pacific time Friday and Saturday the 2nd and 3rd, and I am sure you will find all of the groups playing entertaining and all the announcements exciting! It's all on twitch.tv/DnD and the streams will be archived for later viewing.

I'm going to be on two different games, and I would be filled with gratitude and joy if you could join the Twitch stream and watch live while I'm roleplaying my little heart out. Friday June 2nd I'm playing at 4:30pm Pacific, and Saturday June 3rd I'm playing at 6:30pm Pacific (with the chance that times are subject to change, of course!). Both games should be about an hour and a half, and I will be joining some really talented, funny, inspiring D&D people. Watch some fun and join in the chat. My parents should be watching so you can say hi! ;)

I'll be Tweeting a bunch about the whole event this weekend, and if you have any questions or want to see something shoot me a message there as that's the quickest and best way to contact me. I'm @OboeCrazy on Twitter....because BRANDING!

Thanks again for all of your support! I'm gonna go make the RT community proud!

I just finished listening to the last Glib Shark, and from what you are saying is that renegade Sheppard sounds like the D&D equivalent to a Lawful Chaotic character to me. (I have never played any of the Mass Effect games but I have wanted to). And that I agree with you that Cinebarre is an amazing theatre. No kids + drinks = a great movie experience.

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RTX Head Guardian

2 years ago

I found you a new car.

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Hawkeye

2 years ago

Happy (belated) Birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day and got to hang out with cool people

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My great great great grandfather. I heard stories about him from my grandmother when I was a child but they were colored by time and a rather strange historic hatred. SUPPOSEDLY he was a horse thief in Russia who fell in love with the daughter of the Rabbi in town. So he "kidnapped" her, rode across Europe, got on a boat, and brought her to America. Because she was stuck with this guy in a land she didn't know she pretty much was forced to marry him and that's where my Mom's side of the family comes from.

I believe that history is probably a little less spectatular, but still I wana meet that guy!!

A shirt that fits any occasion! I don't need pockets to often, I rarely carry more then three items. I don't need to stay hidden. The shoes that make my feet never hurt could be REALLY nice....but CLOTHING THAT WORKS ANYWHERE YES GIVE ME PLEASE!!!

I want the Sydney Opera House. It's gorgeous, but desperately needs renovating. I would clean up the interior so it's as amazing acoustically wonderful inside as it is beautiful outside. Then I would let any classical group play in the space for free.

In 4th edition D&D I played a Hengeyokai Ranger. The Hengeyokai were shapechangers, except they could only switch between human and one animal form. It gave you some fun stat boosts and RP stuff, so I picked a dog. It helped me figure out his personality, as I pretty much played him like a golden retriever...friendly, loyal to a fault, observant but not always smart, and HATES cats. He was also a min-maxed archer, and would do just a CRAZY amount of damage in combat. It had been a while since I'd played a Striker who could one shot a lot of creatures, and it was crazy fun.

My favorite moment was when we were in this tower in a pocket dimension. We were warned that nothing could be removed from the tower or else the dimension would collapse and we'd all die. One of the other players in the group who loved causing trouble was holding a piece of parchment, and as soon as he heard that he crumpled it up into a ball and threw it out the window. My character turned into a dog to run and grab the paper before it could get out the window, and since the dog form gives extra movement and speed I was able to catch the paper in time.